National Programs

Arts & Culture
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A Prairie Home Companion®
With Garrison Keillor

Transport listeners of all ages to Lake Wobegon with the beloved characters, whimsical skits and musical delights of this radio favorite. Minnesota Public Radio will work with your station to arrange two- or three-day packages that include a station visit by Garrison and the gang, local interviews, paid membership events, major donor luncheons and more. Road shows are also available in various cities throughout the country.

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The Splendid Table®
With Lynne Rossetto Kasper

Indulge your listeners’ appetites with a wide range of global cuisines and customs, from café to kitchen to corner market and beyond. Vivacious host Lynne Rossetto Kasper is a proven fundraiser with major stations through appearances at events. This high-energy celebration of diverse tastes has something for everyone—and every station.

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The Writer’s Almanac®
With Garrison Keillor

Garrison Keillor has been honored with numerous awards for his contributions to literature, including an election to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Fittingly, the humorist, radio icon and celebrated author brightens each day with historical highlights from literature, music and art—and shares a pretty good poem or two. Listeners will treasure this daily five-minute musing from one of public radio’s best-loved hosts.

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Classical Music
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American Mavericks™
With Suzanne Vega

Hosted by singer/songwriter Suzanne Vega and inspired by the San Francisco Symphony’s music festival of the same name, Minnesota Public Radio’s American Mavericks series explores the revolution behind concert music in the 20th century. With integrated Web and broadcast components, your audience can tune in and log on to the new beat of classical music. Now available in a free broadcast-ready CD box set. To get your set, contact your PRI station relations manager at 1-888-330-4139.

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Classical 24®

Drawing from a library of more than 55,000 CDs, this nationally syndicated classical music service is devoted to live, hosted music programming 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The eloquent, genial hosts of Classical 24 befriend audiences across the country with the kind of rapport usually built between local listeners and station-based hosts. With customized promo spots and pitches to support your fundraising needs, you’ll not only receive great music, but individual service. In addition, during September, C24 features fresh material from the BBC Proms and Music@Menlo festivals, bringing listeners timely programming not heard anywhere else.

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Composers Datebook®
With John Zech

Each two-minute glimpse into the lives of composers links significant or curious music history to current happenings, and offers appropriate and accessible music for each. With warmth and familiarity, host John Zech reveals the comical, sad and intimate encounters that inspire musical genius. A full month of the show is delivered on CD for flexible programming, including a synopsis of the day’s events and key compositions for your on-air and Web use.

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Minnesota Orchestra
With Brian Newhouse

Now under the leadership of Finnish conductor Osmo Vänskä, the Minnesota Orchestra has thrilled audiences for a century. Host Brian Newhouse weaves engaging introductions, onstage interviews and his own passion for the music into two hours of classical music excellence. The current season showcases the Minnesota Orchestra's Centennial, with renowned guest conductors and soloists—Dutoit, Slatkin, de Waart, Marriner, Renée Fleming and Yo-Yo Ma.

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Pipedreams®
With Michael Barone

For 90 minutes each week, the eloquent and good-humored Michael Barone spotlights extraordinary instruments and performers playing awe-inspiring music. When the organ music ends, Barone continues with 30 additional minutes of related classical music, creating a convenient two-hour block of exquisite programming. Invite Pipedreams to your market for a live event. It’s a powerful way to build loyalty with your audience by taking advantage of Michael Barone’s strong relationship with listeners.

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The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
With Michael Barone

Led by Music Director Andreas Delfs and Baroque Series Director Nicholas McGegan, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra presents its repertoire with unrivaled clarity and style. Host Michael Barone enriches the listeners’ concert experience with insightful introductions and conversations with players and conductors. This season begins a three-year exploration of the life and music of Mozart. The Orchestra also showcases the music banned under the Nazi Regime during World War II.

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Saint Paul Sunday®
With Bill McGlaughlin

Affable host Bill McGlaughin welcomes internationally renowned musicians into the studio for artistry and conversation The Los Angeles Times calls “ultimately addictive.” And now, you can add power to your fundraising with Master Play, the newest edition in the Sunday Sessions CDs, featuring a never-before-available recording of pianist Jon Kimura Parker performing a new fantasy on Harold Arlen’s music for the Wizard of Oz. Use it as a premium or in your daily programming.

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Music Specials

Minnesota Public Radio is pleased to announce new partnerships with the BBC Proms and the Music@Menlo festival. These partnerships will result in two special limited series starting this spring.

BBC Proms 2004
With Tom Crann

The BBC Proms welcomes leading international performers while showcasing the best of the British music scene, including the BBC’s own orchestras and choirs. The Proms has thrilled concertgoers for 110 seasons, and now American listeners can enjoy the festivities. Minnesota Public Radio, BBC World Service and PRI have partnered to offer selected programs from the 2004 summer season, presenting a range of symphonic and operatic music, leading up to a live broadcast of “Last Night at the Proms.”

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Music@Menlo
With Brian Newhouse

Music@Menlo 2004 features some of the world’s most celebrated musicians—combining exceptional charisma, talent and experience—and Minnesota Public Radio has a front row seat. Among this year’s participants and performers are Colin Carr (cello), Charles Chandler (bass), Jorja Fleezanis (violin), Philip Setzer (violin), Jeffrey Kahane (piano), Carol Wincenc (flute), Kenneth Cooper (harpsichord), and many more.

For more information, contact your PRI Station Relations Manager at 1-888-330-4139.

News
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American RadioWorks®

Public radio’s largest documentary unit creates investigative and historical documentaries that challenge and inform listeners nationwide. From Korea: The Unfinished War to Whose Vote Counts?, each special includes customizable promos, press releases, photos, Web graphics and modules. At no cost to your station, reports are available for use up to 90 days after date of feed or with special permission. Minnesota Public Radio will provide help with promotion, scheduling, interview sources and “local angle” suggestions. ARW producers, correspondents and occasionally, sources, are available for local call-in programs and events.

As It Happens
With Mary Lou Finlay and Barbara Budd

Produced in Toronto by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, this daily current affairs program presents stimulating conversation with fascinating guests, probing features, incisive commentary and more. For more than 30 years, the show has explored the heart of a story, whether it’s happening in the streets of Belgrade, the dockyards of Vancouver, the boardrooms of Bay Street or the kitchens of Paris.

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Future Tense®
With Jon Gordon

Produced and hosted by Jon Gordon, a Minnesota Public Radio reporter based in Silicon Valley, this daily “Journal of the Digital Age” keeps pace with the hottest IT topics and reports the highlights during daily five-minute capsules. From golf technology to robot art, Gordon and Future Tense keep listeners up to date on the ever-changing world of computers and the Internet.

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Marketplace®
With David Brown

Now in it’s 15th year, Marketplace attracts diverse audiences with its fresh approach to business journalism. In addition to underwriting sales support and local sales kits, we also provide Web content modules for your station’s home site that are updated daily. Minnesota Public Radio will work with your station to arrange additional value-added items such as station visits, local interviews, road shows, paid membership events and major donor functions. 

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Marketplace Morning Report®
With Kai Ryssdal and Tess Vigeland

The global economy is hard at work while your listeners sleep, but they can catch up and keep up with Marketplace Morning Report, a quick and complete update on the world of business and finance. In the same witty, confident style of its parent program Marketplace, the show delivers business news and features during seven nine-minute modules—including drive time in the Pacific time zone—with an optional cutaway each weekday morning.

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Public Radio Weekend®
With Barbara Bogaev

It’s getting real! Public Radio Weekend features news, events, music performance, conversation, “catch-up” reports on trends, developments in science and humanities and listening sessions to the best works in progress. And a look at Americans doing what we do on weekends. We’re working with the best producers around to create a weekend service that celebrates our nation’s diversity and the amazing talent pool that public radio has and is. Barbara Bogaev, substitute host and interviewer for NPR’s Fresh Air, has recently been named host and senior editor of Public Radio Weekend.

Sound Money®
With Kai Ryssdal and Chris Farrell

There are so many terms for money: Cash, dough, loot, moolah, bread, bank, bucks. With all those names, money must be important to us. And what else is personal finance but a fancy term for “your money?” YOUR MONEY. Sound Money—now produced by the Marketplace production team—brings business and economics coverage home by looking at the way the week's major national and international stories hit your wallet.

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Speaking of Faith®
With Krista Tippett

Speaking of Faith is public radio’s conversation about belief, meaning, ethics and ideas. Each week, host Krista Tippett focuses on a different theme, asking writers, thinkers and theologians to discuss how religion shapes everyday life. Minnesota Public Radio assists you in launching Speaking of Faith in your local market by offering a range of publicity and outreach support. Your customizable station visit package may include local interviews, general membership events, a major donor reception and more.

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